Philosophy on steroids: why the anti-doping position could use a little enhancement.
There is currently much concern over the use of pharmaceuticals and other biomedical techniques to enhance athletic performance--a practice we might refer to as doping. Many justifications of anti-doping efforts claim that doping involves a serious moral transgression. In this article, I review a number of arguments in support of that claim, but show that they are not conclusive, suggesting that we do not have good reasons for thinking that doping is wrong.
Kious
Brent M
BM
UCLA Department of Philosophy, UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics, 321 Dodd Hall, 405 Hilgard, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1451, USA. kious@ucla.edu
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